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<v 0>Calls for racial justice and equality are growing louder in America,</v>

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but those calls comes a renewed interest in reparations.

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Reparations are the act of making amends to someone or a group of people who

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have been wronged Germany,

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paid billions of dollars in reparations to Holocaust victims or their families,

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and to Israel after the Nazi atrocities of world war two. And in 1988,

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the U S paid more than 80,000 Japanese Americans who were held in internment

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camps during world war two. They each got $20,000,

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but African Americans have never gotten reparations for their 246 years of

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slavery.

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Lawmakers have introduced bills in Congress to study reparations and whether

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it's possible, but most have never gotten very far. In 2008,

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the house of representatives issued an apology for slavery and in 2019 bills to

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study and develop a proposal for reparations were introduced into both houses of

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Congress.

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But the legislation languished recently there's been renewed interest like the

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Harriet Tubman community investment act,

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which the Maryland general assembly is considering.

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The Brookings institution says it could be a possible blueprint to what

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reparations could look like for black Americans. Under this act,

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the descendants of slaves in Maryland could receive the following repayments

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tracing. The descendants of slaves will be one major challenge.

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Unlike victims of the Holocaust and Japanese internment camps.

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There are not a lot of paper trails for the descendants of slavery.

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The census didn't count black Americans until 1870 and unlike immigrant groups

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who have their history documented at Ellis Island.

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There's no central historical database for the descendants of slaves.